TV/radio analyst extraordinaire Mark Rycroft, the former DU star and NHLer, is having a good day. He’s in the Altitude studio booth right now working the Avalanche game. Tonight he will join funnyman Jay Stickney in the DU radio booth at the Colorado Springs World Arena, where the Pioneers complete a home-and-home series with the Tigers.

Rycroft also worked Friday’s 2-0 CC victory at Magness Arena. I worked that game too, and told him I was going to make his doubleheader my “what you might have missed.” Instead, I’ll put it here for perhaps the most talented up-and-coming hockey broadcaster in the country. Rycker, of course, played with the Avs in 2006-07 and sat beside Ian Laperriere in the locker room. Rycker and Lappy were cut from the same cloth. Beauties.

Terry Frei graduated from Wheat Ridge High School in the Denver area and has degrees in history and journalism from the University of Colorado-Boulder. He worked for the Rocky Mountain News while attending CU and joined the Post staff after graduation. He has also worked at the Oregonian in Portland, Ore., and The Sporting News. His seventh book, March 1939: Before the Madness, was issued in February 2014.

Chambers covers college and professional hockey for The Denver Post. He has written for the Post since 1994, after dumping his first 9-to-5 office job a couple years out of college. He primarily follows the University of Denver hockey team and helps cover the Avalanche.